Anthony Angelilli (American b.1995) was born and raised in an Italian household after the post steel mill era of Youngstown, Ohio. Since the collapse of the steel industry in 1977 known as “Black Monday,” his family continued to operate a...
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Anthony Angelilli (American b.1995) was born and raised in an Italian household after the post steel mill era of Youngstown, Ohio. Since the collapse of the steel industry in 1977 known as “Black Monday,” his family continued to operate a local residential-commercial flooring company where Angelilli learned a variety of construction processes.
Angelilli graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Youngstown State University in 2019 and has an emphasis in skilled trades. Angelilli’s work explores the possibility of art, and questions the impact of industrial and consumerists byproducts within American culture. Angelilli investigates these ideas by translating traditional methods of drawing, painting, sculpting, and site specific-installation onto car seat headrests. The objects often resemble figures, and transcend ideas about freedom, the human experience, and early pictographic cave-paintings.
Angelilli’s work has been shown nationally with galleries and museums such as The Butler Institute of American Art, The McDonough Museum of Art, Brew House Arts, Ketchup City Creative, Troppus Projects, Kent State University Downtown Gallery, and Trumbull Art Gallery. Now, he works and resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He runs a full-time artist studio and operates as a painter by trade. Further yet, Angelilli’s work has been mentioned in Architect Magazine, and published in the 2022 Winter Catalog for I Like Your Work podcast. He was honored as an artist Fellow for The Civita Institute in 2020.
